Book Two of the Dialogues: Life of Saint Benedict

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: HOW HOLY Benedict CURED A BOY OF LEPROSY.

But I must not here pass over with silence that which I had by relation of the honorable man, Anthony, who said that his father's boy was so pitifully punished with a leprosy, that all his hair fell off, his body swelled, and filthy corruption openly came forth. Who being sent by his father to the man of God, he was by him quickly restored to his former health.